Cairo Jazz Festival

Lusenda’s visit coincided with the Cairo Jazz Festival!

And my favorite band, Wust el Balad, was the closing act of the weekend.  We attended the opening and closing concerts, although didn’t make any in the between.

I was super happy to get to see our friend Nada at the opening Riff Band concert.

That’s the Nile to our left!  Sakia el Sawy, the venue for most of the Jazz Festival, is built using the bridge over the Nile as a rooftop — and the weather was perfect for the concert.

Nada’s friend, Ryen (I don’t have a pic) who was also at the concert, happens to be an intern in the famous head office of Egyptian Antiquities.  Upon finding out Lusenda is really interested in Egyptology, he offered to show her the mummies in the Egyptian museum.  And he followed up on that promise a few days later!  Needless to say, Lusenda thought he was probably the coolest person she’s met.

A little bit of dancing went down.

Oh, that’s Ryen’s back between us.

A quite a bit of silliness.

Closing night:

We followed up the concert with some delicious feteer at a local cafe with friends.  A great night out in Cairo with Lusenda!